Toronto International Film Festival International Critics' Prizes

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The Toronto International Film Festival International Critics' Prizes, currently known as the FIPRESCI Prizes, are film awards presented by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) to films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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History

First presented in 1982 as the CFTO International Critics' Prize, [1] the award was voted by all media attending the festival, and could be presented annually to one film, two films or one film with an honorable mention. In 1992, FIPRESCI launched an award at the festival to honour the best film by a first-time director, as selected by an appointed jury of eight international film critics, while the original International Critics' Prize was renamed the Metro Media Award, and continued to be voted on by all accredited media who were not on the FIPRESCI jury. [2]

The Metro Media Award was discontinued after 1998, and replaced with the Discovery Award, which continued to be voted on by all accredited media. In 2008, the awards were modified to their current structure, with two FIPRESCI awards presented for films in the festival's Discovery and Special Presentations streams; a media-voted Discovery award was still presented that year alongside the FIPRESCI Discovery award, but was discontinued thereafter.

Since 2020, only a single FIPRESCI Prize winner has been named each year.

Winners

International Critics' Prize

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
1982 Veronika Voss Rainer Werner Fassbinder [1]
The Taste of Water (De smaak van water) Orlow Seunke
1983 The Fourth Man Paul Verhoeven [3]
1984 Choose Me Alan Rudolph [4]
1985 My American Cousin Sandy Wilson [5]
No Surrender Alan Bleasdale
1986 Man Facing Southeast Eliseo Subiela [6]
1987 Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) Jean-Claude Lauzon [7]
1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives Terence Davies [8]
1989 Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) Denys Arcand [9]
1990 An Angel at My Table Jane Campion [10]
1991 My Own Private Idaho Gus Van Sant [11]

Metro Media Award

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
1992 Man Bites Dog Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel [12]
1993 Naked Mike Leigh [13]
1994 Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson [2]
1995 La Cérémonie Claude Chabrol [14]
1996 Shine Scott Hicks [15]
1997 Boogie Nights Paul Thomas Anderson [16]
L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson
1998 Happiness Todd Solondz [17]

Discovery Award

YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
1999 Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish Kevin Jordan [18]
2000 George Washington David Gordon Green [19]
101 Reykjavík Baltasar Kormákur
2001 Chicken Rice War Chee Kong Cheah [20]
2002 The Magdalene Sisters Peter Mullan [21]
2003 Rhinoceros Eyes Aaron Woodley [22]
2004 Omagh Pete Travis [23]
2005 Look Both Ways Sarah Watt [24]
2006 Reprise Joachim Trier [25]
2007 Cochochi Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán [26]
2008 Hunger Steve McQueen [27]

FIPRESCI Prize

YearFilmDirector(s)CategoryRef
1992 Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino Winner [12]
1993 Strapped Forest Whitaker Winner [13]
1994 The Silences of the Palace Moufida Tlatli Winner [2]
Fate (Verhängnis) Fred Kelemen Honorable mention
1995 Desolation Angels Tim McCann Winner [14]
Eggs Bent Hamer
1996 Life Lawrence JohnstonWinner [15]
The Daytrippers Greg Mottola Honorable mention
1997 Under the Skin Carine Adler Winner [16]
1998 West Beirut Ziad Doueiri Winner [17]
Praise John Curran
1999 Shower Zhang Yang Winner [18]
2000 Bangkok Dangerous Pang Fat & Oxide Pang Chun Winner [19]
2001 Inch'Allah Dimanche Yamina Benguigui Winner [20]
Be My Star (Mein Stern) Valeska Grisebach Honorable mention
Khaled Asghar Massombagi
2002 Under Another Sky (Les chemins de l'oued) Gaël Morel Winner [21]
Open Hearts Susanne Bier Honorable mention
2003 Noviembre Achero Mañas Winner [22]
2004 In My Father's Den Brad McGann Winner [23]
2005 Sa-kwa Kang Yi-kwan Winner [24]
2006 Death of a President Gabriel Range Winner [25]
2007 La Zona Rodrigo Plá Winner [26]
2008 Disgrace Steve Jacobs Special Presentations [27]
Lymelife Derick Martini Discovery
2009 Hadewijch Bruno Dumont Special Presentations [28]
The Man Beyond the Bridge Laxmikant Shetgaonkar Discovery
2010 L'Amour Fou Pierre Thoretton Special Presentations [29]
Beautiful Boy Shawn Ku Discovery
2011 The First Man Gianni Amelio Special Presentations [30]
Avalon Axel Petersén Discovery
2012 In the House François Ozon Special Presentations [31]
Call Girl Mikael Marcimain Discovery
2013 Ida Paweł Pawlikowski Special Presentations [32]
The Amazing Catfish Claudia Sainte-Luce Discovery
2014 Time Out of Mind Oren Moverman Special Presentations [33]
May Allah Bless France! Abd al Malik Discovery
2015 Desierto Jonás Cuarón Special Presentations [34]
Eva Nová Marko Skop Discovery
2016 I Am Not Madame Bovary Feng Xiaogang Special Presentations [35]
Kati Kati Mbithi Masya Discovery
2017 The Motive Manuel Martín Cuenca Special Presentations [36]
Ava Sadaf Foroughi Discovery
2018 Skin Guy Nattiv Special Presentations, Winner [37]
A Faithful Man Louis Garrel Special Presentations, Honorable Mention
Float Like a Butterfly Carmel Winters Discovery, Winner
Twin Flower Laura Luchetti Discovery, Honorable Mention
2019 How to Build a Girl Coky Giedroyc Special Presentations [38]
Murmur Heather Young Discovery
2020 Beginning (Dasatskisi) Dea Kulumbegashvili Winner [39]
2021 Anatolian Leopard (Anadolu Leoparı) Emre Kayiş Winner [40]
2022 A Gaza Weekend Basil Khalil Winner [41]
2023 Seagrass Meredith Hama-Brown Winner [42]
2024 Mother Mother K'naan Warsame Winner [43]

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